Legal Benchmarking Group to acquire The Lawyer from Centaur Media for $58m.

Legal Benchmarking Group, is a provider in practice-area research and rankings, insights, and awards for global law firms, agreed to acquire The Lawyer, a website with all the breaking stories, commentary and data on the global legal sector, from Centaur Media, an international provider of business intelligence, learning and specialist consultancy that inspires and enables people to excel at what they do within the marketing and legal professions, for $58m. “We are really excited to have The Lawyer join LBG. Their products and capabilities are complementary to what we do at a practice area level, and will enhance how we serve global law firms with differentiated, mission-critical, business of law insight,” Tom St Denis, Legal Benchmarking Group CEO.